- Recipient of 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Non-fiction
- Winner, 2022 ASJA Writing Award for First-Person Essay, for “Grief Work”
- “Ashland alumna, faculty member each honored by Ohio Arts Council,” Ashland University News, April 2022
- “Dayton-area artists receive excellence awards from Ohio Arts Council,” Dayton Daily News, Feb. 10, 2022
- “Roadmap to a Fire” essay named 2020 “Best of the Nest” by Pigeon Pages.
- Winner, 2017 Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant
- “WR grad wins major writing award,” Sandusky Register, July 9, 2017.
- “Dayton woman wins major writing prize,” Dayton Daily News, July 7, 2017.
- “30 Under 30 with Ashley Bethard,” News Media Alliance, July 28, 2016.
- Interview with Rappahannock Review, Issue 1.4. “Contributor Spotlight: Interview with Ashley Bethard.”
- “Of Blood,” essay nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Rappahannock Review.
- “This Is Not A Pipe” featured in “Best of Hot Metal Bridge” anthology; Fall 2011.
- “I Am Speaking the Language” selected as a Fwriction Review “Story of the Day,” October 10, 2011.
- “This Is Not A Pipe,” nominated by Hot Metal Bridge for Dzanc Books “Best of the Web 2011” Anthology.
- Runner-up, “Shape in a Misshapen World” Festival of the Arts literary contest in prose for my nonfiction piece, “This is Not a Pipe,” May 2009.
- Recipient of Ashland University Undergraduate Creative Writing Award in Prose, April 2008.
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